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PREFACE 



w ^ In preparing this little hand book for the press, I 
"• consider it my duty to say what is meant by the prep- 
"^ aration of it for Bible teachers to read, and for all 
.j others who are interested in the present condition of 
the African race; and for, in the best way to show 
the real cause of this condition, and to show what 
the race is now facing, without a ray of hope of re- 
demption, as are many other people more fortunate. 
This little book is not for riches, nor hatred, nor prej- 
udice, neither for pretention to any degree of learn- 
, ing, but for every person of fair and honest mind, to 
I take a copy and read it through. It is prepared for 
the whole human race, in every language, that owes 
everything to one drop of the blood of Christ; and to 
I make all men know what is to come upon the world 
i of ungodly men. (Dan. 12:3.) 

You who read wuU find enough to prove that the 
people of both races are ignorant of Bible truth and 
are either mistaught or not taughtxat all in the mys- 
teries of the Ancient of Days and th^ third coming 
of Christ in the clouds of the heaven. Thousands of 
dollars have already been given for what little we 
know about these mysteries. I cannot believe that 
a few pennies paid for a book like this will hurt the 
welfare of any man or woman of whatever nation- 
ality. 

It is not a matter of race, but a matter of knowing 
the saving truth and to know how an ignorant and 
a learned people stand under the heavens of God, 
with the fulfillment signs, and wars and rumors of 
wars, and the blackness of the sun looking down on 
the rulers of the world. 



"THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN' 
(Rer. 6:12) 



Discussed in the Approved Light of the Ancient of 

Days from Bible History and Modern Science, 

Shows 42,000 Years (Rev. 19:12-17) 



As we are about to review the old ex-slave sermons 
of the Rev. John Jasper, the readers of this little 
book will well remember the often repeated words 
of that grand old man on the mystery of the sun. 
In his day and timu little, if anything, was ever said 
about the Black Spot, yet it might have been, which 
is quite likely, since the heavenly bodies were as 
much concerned in the civil rights of the American 
blacks as ever they were in the blacks of the Gibe- 
onites in the time of Joshua. (Amos. 5:7-12, 20.) 

It was not only in his day that appeals were made 
to the sun, but far back, and long before his day, 
and before the foundation of the earth, which we 
will show, that ai)p,eals of the same kind were made 
to the sun in the book of the prophecy of Enoch. It 
should not be anything strange now for us, who 
are believers in the Son, to see a black spot, when 
we have to acknowledge His right to set His taber- 
nacle in the sun. It is a spot, indeed, which shows 
by its moving near to and far from the equator at 
times, that it is a movement of intelli^^'ence, knowing 
when and how to move. It is no new thing; it ^eerns 
to Ije as it appears, a great cloud of opaque substance,. 



8 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

fusible and flaming like gold, which by its own light 
shows the darkness of its color, its cause and original 
heat of its own glory. 

Saint Augustine, a native born Canaanite, of his 
parents, Patricius and Monica, at Tagasta, a city of 
Nubia, Ethiopia, in his undeniable statement, says 
that darkness was the first cause from the beginning 
of all things, and Christ the first of all. In the great 
purpose of the Father we see a revolving wheel, of 
eternity; eyes have not seen, eyes cannot see the body 
of that divine which the Son called "a sign" in the 
sun, and which He revealed to Jqhn as being an angel 
standing in the sun. No shape whatever of His per- 
son, and no denial of His being the -express image, 
and no likeness can be seen by the natural eye, as to 
who and what that angel or sign is.^ Though it be 
in the sun, and though He may shine with burning 
heat of that spherical body, geometry has not yet 
re^^aled the thickness and blackness of the heavens 
'that was before the sun or the sign was declared. 
Since from all ages we have had blackness, it is to 
us now a spot of wonder. It is said by the scientists to 
be a "cloud," therefore when the sun will become 
black as sackcloth it will be then when the cloud will* 
have covered the sun. But as we see it now, from 
the surrounding atmosphere which sheds no light on 
the nature of what the sun and the black spot are 
materially composed, we will rest upon the fact that 
the statement of the Son Himself, and believe that it 
is the immaterial Spirit heat of the divine, and the 
brightness of the burning excellency and purity of 
the gold or metalic glory of the Angel in the sun. 

Some one may have a desire to ask as to whether 
I mean to say that the sun, in its present golden col- 
ored brightness, is material gold; answering the 
question, I do not mean any such thing, but I do mean 
to say that our material or natural gold mine is one 
thing, and the immaterial or spiritual divine mind 
from which the material took its name, is another. 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 9 

Abounding first in its own infinite realm of darkness, 
which you know is indestructible and cannot burn 
like gas, until it can be no more, but an incombusti- 
ble sphere of divine intelligence, creating His own 
heat and light in the midst of that great body of 
darkness, until the purity of the golden sun was made 
ready to appear in the heavens. 

Thus the incombustibility of the sphere of darkness 
is equal to the incombustibility of the light which it 
emits. The sun being the light in this goldish color, 
made it the heir of the incombustibility of the spher- 
ical body, because He came forth from it and was 
created by it to be the light of the heavens and of 
the lower world. Not goldish as of material metal, 
melted or compounded, but goldish as to color which 
was as pure, indestructible and incomprehensible as 
the great cause of it, that made it to shine like re- 
finer's gold. (Rev. 4:4-5.) 

The sun or Son of light virtually implies a Father 
of light, hence this would necessarily make Him the 
cause of what existed before the light. If in Him was 
the sun or Son and this was tfhe light, this was the sec- 
ond in the Father's mind, hid in His eternal purpose 
before He declared Him. This is the light in dark- 
ness which to us now is the sun, the same figure de- 
scribes the Son of God. As a Son, He is a wheel of 
wisdom, as He said at the Ancient end of the man of 
time, ''Look not upon me, because I am black, be- 
cause the sun hath looked upon me," which evident- 
ly signifies that the sun or the Spot in it had eyes 
to see all else around Him, below and above Him, in 
that spheric body. He made use of the word ''black" 
first, which we take to mean the producer or cause 
of the light — the sun or the eye of that body which 
we take to mean the second person, the eye, or second 
cause, or the glory of the first cause behind the veil 
of this opaque darkness, ready to be revealed. Here 
is another Son and close relative of wisdom, who 
makes mention of four degrees, namely, the word. 



10 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

darkness, the light, and the word made flesh, full of 
grace and truth. Darkness is a mere moderate de- 
gree of blackness; in this latter sense, the first Son 
of wisdom used it when he said ''black," because as 
he said ''the sun hath looked upon me." The look 
was meant for him to look like and be just what the 
sun was, and the jetness of black color, in his mean- 
ing, was due to the sun because He possessed him, 
being wholly enveloped in the mystery of blackness 
until it was cut and penetrated by Him. So he look- 
ed upon him as His beloved Solomon. 

The exquisite naturalness of black is so pregnant 
of meaning in the realm of the occult purposes and 
plans of God, who created all things by the Son, that 
it was necessary to put His sign in the sun. He said 
Himself in speaking of the same, "There shall be 
signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; 
and upon the earth distress of nations." These signs 
have already appeared, one of which is the "Black 
Spot in the Sun," which was seen and declared to the 
nation from the United States Naval Observatory at 
Washington, D. C. (Habakuk 3:3-11.) . 

My own observation of it was May 20, 1915. It 
must not be looked upon as a mere common state- 
ment because I am black, nor as a spot that can be 
washed out by soap and water of any scrub woman, 
but look upon it as a black spot that is a sign of dis- 
tress of nations, watching the time of the gentiles 
that cannot be removed nor destroyed until the time 
is fulfilled. 

The spot is in the sun over the nations that dis- 
dained the black nation and disclaimed the rights of 
its ancient sovereignty. It is not only just a spot 
alone, but, as John saw it, is "an angel standing in 
the sun," therefore, its blackness is more than an 
ordinary spot as seen from the observatory, and the 
sight of it in the time of war has a greater meaning 
than a pimple in the face of a Avoman. Its present 
size is given by the scientists to be 30,000 miles in 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 11 

diameter, while the flaming light glowing from it is 
sent a distance of 70,000 miles, which is said to be a 
distance of 12,000 miles larger than the earth. When 
we think of how it appeared in the time of the war of 
nations we will no doubt be forced to believe that 
either the sun itself or the spot in it is rationally con- 
cerned in the doings of the nations. (Nahum 3 :8-10.) 
It is said, how^ever, to be a spot of 30,000 miles in 
diameter. It was seen by the Prophet Ezekiel as a 
''wheel in a wheel of fire," by Daniel as a "fiery 
wheel," by Christ as a "sign in the sun," and by John 
as "an angel in the sun." By putting this last state- 
ment with what Christ said about the signs in the 
sun, they seem to mean the inhabitants of the sun. 
If inhabited, this w^ould be a good reason for the (jibe- 
onites to appeal to heaven for the sun to interpose 
between them and the Israelites. Directing the host's 
high look to the sun for His favor and interposition 
on these Canaanitish people, saying with an exalted 
cry to the Most High, "Sun, stand thou still on (libe- 
on, and thou Moon in the valley of Ajalon." In grant- 
ing their request, it stood still because the black spot 
in the sun was then, and as it is seen now, a moving 
bodv of hosts of beings to whose concern this ai^peal 
was"' directed. (Enoch 48:3-4.) They were*hea\ enly 
weapons, or the host of heaven which are sometime 
called the innumerable company of angels and spirits 
of just men. The same is the host of more than, 
twelve legions or the 144,000 of whom the kini;- and 
commanding chief said, "These I will bring with me 
when I come." In what is rightly His third coining, 
hear His words for preparedness, which are the fol- 
lowing: "But when-y^^ shall hear of wars and com- 
motions, be not terrified; for these things must first 
come to pass ; but the end is by and by.^ Nation shall 
rise against nation, and kingdom against kin!/<iom. 
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, 
and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of na- 
ti«jns, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 



12 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking 
after those things which are coming on the earth; 
for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." This is 
not all. He continues by saying, "Great earthquakes 
shall be in divers places and famines, pestilence and 
fearful sights and great signs shall there be from 
heaven." What is coming is a moving body and this 
is a sign in heaven which will be fearful, as He said, 
''Then shall they see the Son of man coming in a 
cloud of heaven, with power and great glory." Thus 
the movement of the heavenly body will be around 
about the sun at the time of His coming, when it will 
be black as when John saw it, or as when God said, 
"Then shall the heaven be black and the earth mourn 
because I have purposed it." This purpose in the 
first place is called "eternal," which He purposed in 
the Ancient of days, which was hid in Him who cre- 
ated all things by Him before the foundation of the 
world. 

"Then shall the heavens be black," said God the 
Father, "Then shall they see the Son of man or the 
Ancient of Days coming in the cloud of heaven," 
said the Son of God. Thus the complexion was the 
same as His purpose and when He made this known 
He said, •"! clothed the heavens with blackness and 
made sackcloth their covering, I have purposed it 
and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it. 
Therefore it must be so, and it must stand so, because 
I have spoken it ; it is my word, and I changeth not." 
If such be a matter for all haters of black to consider 
well, the point at which God speaks of this color He 
speaks of His own and of something very near to 
Him. In such words as "heaven is my throne, I 
clothed the heavens with blackness," and that other 
word in the revelation of Jesus Christ, that speaks of 
a woman clothed with the sun, and the other that 
says the sun became black as sackcloth, all of which 
are near to the throne of God. 
What has ever puzzled the scientists is the nature 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 13 

of the matter in which it is an eruption, because they 
can not see the body of the angel standing in it. By 
the word "eruption" I mean a breaking forth through 
the skin, or outer surface of anything as the break- 
ing out of something on the face of a person by which 
the face is spoiled. And when others see it, they ask 
for the cause and nature of this breaking out; this 
is what puzzled the astronomers of modern times 
when they saw the black spot which they called a 
''breaking out or an eruption on the face of the sun.^* 
(Joel 2:6-10.) 

Biblical history, under scientific analysis, discloses 
a woman clothed with the sun and a crown of twelve 
stars on her head. Being thus clothed, she is also 
described as being a woman and mother of one who 
was called ''a man child," and ''Son of man," by the 
same revelation. She was a woman who had an irre- 
vocable history of religious crown heads who sup- 
ported the doctrine of the heavenly bodies; and be- 
ing the real woman, and mother of the Son of the 
promise, she had to be, therefore, clothed with the 
nature of the Son and after that the Sun wherewith 
she was clothed became black as sackcloth, which 
showed the relation of the woman and the sun. (Rev. 
12:4-6.) 

It was stated in the revelation of Jesus Christ that 
she was clothed with the sun, but it was first a spot 
before it covered the whole surface of the sun. It 
was, nevertheless, whatever the whole sun was to 
itself in the realm of his glory. As black as it is, it is 
no blacker than it was when John saw it overshad- 
owing the woman, making her to appear as one 
clothed with it. To do as modern scientists have 
done, to compare the black to the color of the skin, 
we will conceive at once that the spot in the sun in 
the mind of the scientists is an eruption thereof, on 
what they called the face of the sun. If, therefore, 
the figure they give means the face, the black spot 
is on the face and the face is the place where we see 



14 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

the black spot, which they called an eruption. The 
following are the expressed words of the scientists: 

''To realize what a sun spot is, one must know what 
is the nature of the matter in which is an eruption." 

So "The Nature of the Matter," is the next step 
of our inquiries, and to begin this, we must first 
know what is matter. I would say, "matter," in 
this branch of science, is a substance of which bodies 
are constituted. Thus, the sun is a great body of 
burning heat with a black spot in it which the scien- 
tists see and the nature thereof must be according 
to what produced it. To try to know rightly what 
the sun spot is, and to approach as near as possible 
to an understanding of it, we feel enough convinced 
to say that God would not have ordained so com- 
plete obscurity, which we call impervious darkness, 
unless He intended that out of that ver}^ darkness 
at some distant period, a Son light should come. His 
light did not destroy that which produced it any 
more than is the black mantle by the white incan- 
descent light that burns it, for, as white as it 
may be, the black smoke is reproduced on the glass 
above it. Then, does the white light in this case, 
hate the black mantle or the smoke and refuse to 
burn; or does the sun refuse to rise and shine because 
His face is black. Looking at the spot in the face of 
the sun in the light of the Bible signs, and see it as 
an angel standing in the sun as John saw it; if you 
call this an eruption, could the black spot be anything 
else but of the nature of the power that made it, 
namely, unknown darkness. Suppose we call this 
"matter or body," the nature of it would be the in- 
trinsic power of the body that made it, or as "an 
eruption" as the scientists have it would be, but the 
increase of the black spot over the surface of the 
sun. Persons must not forget that it is a sign of 
the distress of nations, even so it can be an angel of 
warning, of a great innumerable army. He is to the 
sun a spot, as what the visage was to the face of the 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 15 

Son of God in His agony of crucifixion under the 
Hebrew and Roman law. Before this came to pass, 
at that hour beginning from twelve to three P. M., 
the sun went into darkness, and blackness covered the 
land, which you will admit, did prove a sign in the 
sun in His case. Even before this time, it was said 
"cloud and darkness are round about Him; righte- 
ousness and judgment are the habitation of His 
throne," which is as true to be admitted as the black 
spot or sign in the sun. 

Scientific and Bible light on the subject show that 
the sun, although bright and shining, or black and 
covered, yet not burning itself to total destruction, 
was seen to be natural, and was equally as natural 
in, and as we apply it to the glory of God, in the divine 
face of the agony of Christ. At one time His face 
is shining like the sun and at another it is covered 
with blackness as of sackcloth, which was the human 
mantle and veil of the breaking asunder of the two 
parts of the temple, namely, light and darkness, the 
veiling and the unveiling of His face to the world. 
As He said, "In like manner I will come again," that 
is, first veiled in darkness of the sky which will be 
the sign of His coming, and then the unveiling of 
Himself in bright clouds to the nations and people 
of the earth. All ages of the world have proven that 
at or before the time of His coming, great signs and 
wonders went before Him, and that blackness, black 
smoke, fire clouds and black men were instruments 
and messengers sent. And how strange it was and is 
now, as in all ages of the prophets before Him, He 
Himself, and His apostles, and every black man and 
woman, were bitterly hated by the rulers of the 
world, and with all the powers against Him, He never 
took down His signs. 

"And there shall be signs in the sky," He said, 
"and in the moon, and in the stars, and upon the 
earth distress of nations" "Watch, therefore, and 
pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to 



16 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

escape all these things that shall come to pass, and 
to stand before the Son of man." The name "Son 
of man," was given to one known to the original 
people as the Ancient of Days, whose hair of His head 
was like pure wool. It occured for the first time, it 
was ever known in the book of the prophesies of 
Enoch and given to the same man whom the sons of 
God called a "Prince and Saviour of mankind," The 
name as referred to in the book of Enoch, was never 
found in the Greek, Hebrew, nor Latin writings, but 
only in the Ethiopian writing and language. Through 
bitter hatred to this people who claimed the brother- 
hood of the Son of man, and authorship of the book 
the English translators said, "We must not recognize 
it regardless of its purity, since we took it from the 
writing of the Ethiopians." This acknowledgement 
gives the authorship of the book of Enoch to the 
black race, and sanctions the doctrine of the Son of 
man, whose name it bears. It supports the name in 
the Bible; it supports the man in His own acknowl- 
edgement of Himself as being the Son of man; and 
the same who will hereafter come in the clouds of 
heaven, sitting at the right hand of power, according 
to what He said. (Hosea 4:1-2.) 

Yet, for all of this, the two great churches of the 
world said we must not support Enoch, since we took 
him from the writing and language of the Ethiopi- 
ans. Thus the black man in his church work supports 
the above statement against himself, his race and 
against the Son of man, whose name the writing 
bears. Therefore, whosoever condemns the book, 
and whosoever supports the condemnation of it, sup- 
ports the condemnation of the Son of man, whose 
name is found in it. Permit me to declare, not to 
condemn the Son of man, 'tis Christ the Son of God 
we hear. No sword nor weapon found in His hand. 
His flaming word. His sword and spear. Since we 
have already referred to the call of the Gibeonites 
to the sun for help in the time of battle, the follow- 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 17, 

ing is the quotation from the book of Enoch (Luke 
21:11-36): "He shall call to every power of the 
heavens, to all the Holy above, and to the power of 
God. The Cherubim, the Seraphim, and the ophanin 
and all the angels of power, and all the angels of the 
Lord; namely, the elect one, and the other power who 
was upon the earth over the water on that day, who 
shall raise their united voices, and shall bless, glorify, 
praise and exalt with their spirit of patience, and 
wisdom." Here, the "elect one" evidently refers to 
the Messiah, and the other power who was on the 
earth on that day. The translator says that accord- 
ing to this passage, ''Christ is represented as existing 
from eternity." Thus the book reads, ''in that hour 
was the Son of man invoked before the Lord of spirits 
and His name was in the presence of the Ancient of 
Days, before the sun and the signs were created, be- 
fore the stars were framed His name was invoked 
in the presence of the Lord of spirits." 

The most interesting part of this remarkable pas- 
sage is, it says that the Lord's name was in the pres- 
ence of the Ancient of Days before the sun and the 
signs were created. (John 4:11.) 

The Egyptian astronomers say that at first there 
was nothing but night and chaos, which they describ- 
ed as an egg which produced love and begot heaven. 
This agrees with the beloved Son doctrine in the di- 
vinity of Christ. The production of love spoken of 
signifies the first begotten Son after whom the whole 
heaven was named. In reference to the egg state- 
ment, a certain Greek made use of these words, 
"Teeming night spreading over her cold black wings, 
laid the first egg whence after time's due course is- 
sued forth love." It was on the account of this egg 
description of the beginning of the creation of God, 
that the Ethiopian wise men always used eggs in 
their religious worship, especially in the feast of ded- 
ication. Night is described in the above quotation as 
a black winged mother of an egg which produced 



18 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

love, that is to say, what the tgg brought forth was 
the same as a brood under the wings of its mother. 
Then, if God is love, Christ was His beloved Son in 
His eternal purpose before the sun and the signs were 
framed. This, therefore, would make Him a Son 
tmder that wing, .which was a night of blackness, 
the producer of love which was that same darkness 
and love in that dreadful night on which the Son of 
love was crucified. 

So by counting tlie time from the beginning of the 
creation of the Son which God purposed in Him, to 
the foundation stone of the earth which w^as laid by 
Him, we have 30,000 years. And so count six days 
or 6,000 years from the foundation to the first Sab- 
bath day, which makes it 36,000 3^ears. To this end 
Enoch was translated at the end of 365 years. At 
this time a Saviour was promised who would come 
again at the end of the appointed time, which they 
would know by counting the number of his years 
walking with God. So from his translation to the 
birth of the same beloved Son we count 4004 years, 
and from His birth to the end of this century are 
6,000 years ; therefore 36,000 and this 6,000 are 42,000 
years, the whole time of the mystery in the Son. 
This is borne out by the fact of the 30 days and five 
hours in the Ethiopic month, according to which 
Christ was about 30 years of age. The 42 agrees 
wdth the 42 months' prophecy of the two witnesses 
and with the prophecy of the woman clothed with 
the sun 1,260 years; and it also agrees with the 42 
books of Hermes or Thothmosis, the original law 
giver. These 42 books are divided by six, which gives 
us seven which were sealed containing the seven last 
plagues. In the search of a reader none was found 
worthy to open the books and to loose the seals but 
the Lamb or Son of God, and of David. 

It seems to be true, as it doth appear, that the sun, 
moon and the stars of the heavens are intelligently 
concerned in all that is going on in the lower world. 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 19 

Take first, the true and faithful witness, the begin- 
ning of the creation of God; especially that which 
He purposed in Him before the creation or the found- 
ation of the earth was laid, and His wisdom which 
He preordained in the person of one that said, 'T am 
black, even from the very beginning of His way, you 
will find Him above, and among the celestial bodies 
as a Prince and Saviour of mankind in the writing 
of the black race." xA.nd that is not all, for w^hen w^e 
look among those celestial bodies, we see not only 
the family and generation of heaven, but we see the 
first Jubilee Singers and the Sons of God shouting 
for joy at the laying of the first corner stone, even 
to the temple of King Solomon. Here began the first 
Jews, here began the Alessiah's kingdom that came 
down from God out of heaven, whose name was in 
the presence of the Ancient of Days. This, you un- 
derstand, was before the foundation was laid, while 
as yet He had not formed the earth, nor the highest 
part of the dust of the ground, while the night spread- 
ed her cold black wings and laid the first tgg from 
whence came love. In this figure, God is the Father, 
darkness the mother, the tgg the Son of love, and 
the Spirit of life in the tgg — King Solomon. In the 
same household it was said, ''Behold, what manner 
of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we 
might be called the-sons of God." These are all Jews 
of a royal priesthood, a holy nation and a peculiar 
people under their King Messiah and ruler of the 
sun, the moon and the five planets, which divide the 
heavenly bodies from the earth; whose name was 
invoked before the Ancient of Days, whose name was 
then and is now, and ever shall be the same visible 
and invisible name, which came down from the heav- 
enly ages as that of the Son of God before the found- 
ation of the world and before Adam was made. 

The readers will understand by this that there 
were no daughters of men before Adam, neither were 
there any Hebrews, Greeks nor Romans in the Holy 



20 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

writing, when the Sons of God were shouting for 
joy. If there were any daughters at all, they were 
the daughters of God with the sons of God to make 
up the family, and household of God, in order to make 
it the true saying, "My Father and your Father, my 
God and your God." As what He said to His and 
Simon's sister, Mary Magdalene, the very name, "My 
Father, which art in heaven,'' makes her a daughter 
rightly enough, for all of the household to say our 
Father, and as Simon said, "The God of our fathers," 
to the Hebrews, "who raised up Jesus from the dead, 
whom ye slew and hanged upon a tree." And Christ 
said to these same Hebrew Israelites, "O Israel, how 
often would I have gathered you as a hen gathers 
her brood, and ye would not," because they were not 
of the same woman nor of the same tgg, but of 
hatred. 

The book of Enoch says, "He shall call to every 
power of the heavens, and to all the Holy above, and 
to the powers of God, the angels of power and the 
angels of the Lord — the elect one and the other pow- 
ers who were upon the earth over the water on that 
day." It is that day and that same Son of man of 
that day, of the Ancient of Days, 42,000 years ago, 
or 15,330,000 days, who said He is coming in the 
clouds of heaven to see all men on business of judg- 
ment. The book of the Ancient of Days said He will 
call to all the powers of heaven, to the sun and moon, 
and to the five planets which are His sign messengers 
that are to come before Him. And what is peculiar 
to notice, there are fivt black spots in the sun which 
appeared from March to May 20, 1915, the largest 
passing near the equator followed by four others, 
from northwest to southeast, over unexplored regions 
of ice to the South Pole. At this point, near the 
equator, was where the star of the East appeared at 
the time of the birth of the Son of man. And at this 
point the black spot either crossed the equatorial line 
or from the latitude it appeared, it crossed and ap- 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 21 

peared where it was seen by the scientists. These 
are not five spots, but as they appear, they seem to 
be different parts of the great spot in the centre of 
the sun, which at times are covered by bright clouds 
which sometimes break asunder to allow the five 
parts of it to appear. They agree with what Christ 
said in St. Luke's gospel concerning the signs in the 
sun; and they also agree with what the Son of man 
said in the book of Enoch concerning the five planets. 
Besides this, there is yet another great mystery 
of the sun, moon and stars, in the Egyptian theology 
and language of the same, meaning by the same race, 
w^hich are the following words, "The Prince and 
Ruler over all the celestial spirits — the God of wis- 
dom, and one who affirmeth to be a mind understand- 
ing all things Himself." Then to Him the following 
prayer is addressed, 'Thou Holy and perpetual Sav- 
iour of mankind, that art always bountiful in cherish- 
ing mortals and dost manifest the dear afifections of 
a mother to them in their calamities. Thou extri- 
catest the involved threads of fate, mitigatest the 
tempest of fortune and restrainest the noxious in- 
fluence of the stars. The celestial Gods worship thee, 
the infernal powers obey thee, and thou rollest round 
the heavens and enlightenest the sun, thou govern- 
est the world, thou treadest upon Tartaur (Hell), the 
stars obey thee, the elements serve thee, and at 
thy beck the winds blow." This is the prayer of 
a black priest of Egypt before the coming of 
Christ. There are three very important phrases 
used in it that require your attention; first, ''thou 
perpetual Saviour of mankind," second, "thou 
rollest round the heavens and enlightenest the 
sun," and third, "the stars obey thee." These are 
remarkable words unveiTing themselves to our mod- 
ern world, most especially so since they present one 
who was a Prince and Ruler of Celestial Spirits, and 
who enlightenest the sun, and now we have seen the 
black spot in the sun which seems to mean the same 
Ruler. 



22 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

Let us see the Prophet Amos 5:18, 25, ''Woe unto 
you that desire the day of the Lord (Christ), to what 
end is it for you; the day of the Lord is darkness 
and not light. Shall not the day of the Lord be dark- 
ness and not light, even very dark and no brightness 
in it. But let judgment run down as waters and 
i-ighteousness as a mighty stream, have 3'^e offered 
unto me sacrifices and offering in the wilderness 
forty years. O house of Israel, but ye have borne the 
tabernacle of your Moloch and Chinn, your images, 
the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves, 
saith the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts." 

The day of the Lord is darkness and not light, said 
the prophet, and the book of Enoch says ''On that 
day He shall call to every power of the heavens and 
all the Holy above, and all the power of God; then 
shall the heavens be black and the earth mourn for 
judgment to run down as water, and righteousness 
as a mighty stream." On the great occasion of the 
day of the Lord which is declared to be a day of 
darkness, and on which account the sun and the 
heavens will be black, the signs, thereof spoken of by 
the Son of man, owns their relation to the black spot 
which the sun now reveals. If He said that He would 
come again into the world, and particularly said that 
there would be signs of His coming, and that these 
signs would be in the sun, and in the moon, and in 
the stars, so recognizing the fact that His day was a 
day of darkness and blackness, and must be the same 
fact and sign as the black spot in the sun, and it must 
be His or Him. He is given to us as the water of 
righteousness, as a mighty stream from the Jordan 
below to the highest heaven. He is given to us as 
a Prince and Ruler of the celestial spirits, and as one 
that cut the darkness and prc^uced the sun, and as 
one that enlightenest the sun. And above all He is 
given to us by the black Priest as a perpetual Saviour 
of mankind." We take again the words of the 
Prophet Amos, saying, "Shall not the day of the Lord 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 23 

be darkness, and not light, even very dark and no 
brightness in it." This ought to convince the most 
insensible person what the black spot in the sun 
means, if by the opening of the sixth seal the whole 
sun is to become black as sack cloth." The Prophet 
Amos fully understood the phrase ''blackness,' be- 
cause he was of the hated son of Noah and Isaiah who 
had the same understanding was his son, and as all 
the other phophets w^ere hated by the Israelites on 
this account. Thus said the prophet of God, ''O 
House of Israel, ye have borne the tabernacle of your 
Gods Moloch and Chinn, the images which ye made to 
yourselves, saith the Lord whose name is the God 
of Hosts." The one who called Himself ''the God 
of Hosts" signifies the God of Hosts of Heaven. It 
is this one, the only wise God, whom we find known 
as the Father of the Son in the Book of Enoch, Avrit- 
ten and known to the black race and to whom it was 
given to declare it. It was in the writing of the 
black people that the Book of Enoch was found and 
in the 108 chapters was all the mystery of the Ancient 
of Days and the beginning of the creation of heaven 
and the name "Son of Man." So it was because it 
was found written in the black peoples' language 
although bearing the name of the Father and the 
Son, it was denied and rejected; and after Doctor 
Lawrence of the Church of England translated it 
into the English tongue, it was said by Mr. F. W. 
Newman "We must not recognize it but regard it as 
a fable of the black race." This is an undeniable 
proof of the Book itself and the authentication of its 
contents was supported after it v/as translated when 
Doctor Lawrence said it was the perfect Word of 
God. Then a copy of the same was sent to the 
United States to Prof. Moses Stouart, of Andover, 
Mass. Ever since its first translation, and since it 
was said "We must not support it," nothing has been 
said about the book, neither has its contents been 
told to the people of either race. Should it be a 



24 The BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN "' -^ 

wonder to anyone to hear it said ''He shall call to 
every power of the Heaven and to all the Holy above, 
and to the Powers of God to make the Book and its 
contents known in the signs of the Heaven to the 
nations in this day and time. It is bad enough to 
say ''we must not recognize the Book of Enoch since 
we found it written in the Ethiopian language," but 
still worse to write other books and papers against 
the parents of Enoch, making them black and de- 
scendents of beasts because of hatred. If the nations 
recognize the name "Son of Man" at all, the book de- 
clares this name which goes with everything else in 
the book, which is equally worthy of the same recog- 
nition as the name itself. 

We must not forget the fact that He called Himself 
"the Son of Man," and so known and called by the 
Prophets, whatever therefore was said against the 
book was also against Him and the contents of the 
book. Just as if He would say whosoever swear by- 
Heaven swears by Him that dwelleth in Heaven," 
making it clearly a matter that concerned all the 
powers of Heaven to which He called; and for the 
nations on earth to know what to expect He set a sign 
in the sun. "If the heavens declared the glory of 
God, there was another which was called the glory 
of the sun in which was a black spot which was called 
a sign." 

So the prophet said, "Arise, shine; for thy light is 
come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." 
In the same sense it was said I beseech theeJet me be- 
hold thy glory. And when He said give me that glory 
.which I had with thee before the world was, it was 
that co-existing glory when darkness and light were 
the same as two in one, where and when He was with 
the Father before He declared Him the light. So 
from this dark pre-existing glory of the Father of 
light, from which the Son was to emerge forth to 
claim the darkness as His own and dedicating it as 
being the first cause of His creation. Thus, He must 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 25 

be that, to make it possible for Him to enjoy the ori- 
ginal glory, to make it true as when we say, "Well 
might the Son in darkness hide to shut His glory in," 
or 'Tn darkest shade if He appear, my dawning is be- 
gun. He is my soul's bright morning star and He 
is my rising Sun." This means that He was hid and 
shut up into the mystery of the Father's glory in 
darkness and the eternal unknown man to be the 
Son of the morning of the first day or David, of 
the everlasting covenant. The morning Son rising 
could not have been, unless He had passed through 
a night of darkness which previously had existed as 
the cause and creator of His rising. ''He made dark- 
ness His secret place," said this David; "His pavilion 
round and about Him were dark waters and thick 
cloud of the skies." This was His heavenly home 
world and darkness His glory and the sun the fiery 
wheel of light out of darkness, and in the wheel were 
living creatures whose appearance was like burning 
coals of fire and as the appearance of a wheel in the 
middle of a wheel." This is what John meant when 
he said he saw an angel standing in the sun; at no 
time was this revelation than in the time of war of 
the kings of the earth. The revelation was the rev- 
elation of Jesus Christ which God gave to John the 
same was a living creature in the middle of a burn- 
ing wheel which Christ called a sign in the sun, which 
now appears as a black spot over the European War. 
(Jeremiah 4:7-28; 30.) As in Israel the Prophet 
Amos said "Woe unto you that desire the day of the 
Lord which is darkness and very dark and no bright- 
ness in it. And thou sayest how doth God know, 
can He judge through the dark cloud? Thick clouds 
are a covering to Him and He walks in the circuit of 
heaven and enlightenest the sun and makes darkness 
His dwelling place." A circuit is a round, circular 
space or the judicial dominion of a judge. It was Job 
who said God judges through the dark clouds. In 
the son is His throne of Judgment and the circuit of 



26 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

His judicial dominion where the darkness must first 
begin as a sign of Elis coming. So when He will come 
to justify the signs of the past and present for the 
future, Daniel said ''a fiery stream issued and came 
forth from before Him and thousand thousands min- 
istered unto Him and ten thousand times ten thous- 
and stood before Him; and judgment was set and the 
books were opened. "And I saw and behold one like 
the Son of Man come with the clouds of heaven and 
came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him 
near before Him. And a book was opened and an- 
other book was opened and those who stood before 
Him were judged according to those things which 
are written in the J30oks." It is evidently true that 
the Son of Man spoken of in the prophecy of Daniel 
is the same spoken of in the book of the prophecy 
of Enoch. 

And the same Son of Man that Daniel saw come 
in the clouds of heaven was the same that said "Here- 
after you shall see the Son of Man coming in the 
clouds of heaven setting at the right hand of power." 
And the same one that the book of Enoch said would 
"call to every power of the heavens and to all the 
Holy above even the power of God, and the angels 
of power and the angels of the Lord — the elect one; 
and the other powers that were upon earth over the 
waters on that day; even to John the Baptist." And 
what is yet greater on that day, judgment will be set 
and presided over by the Son of Man and the book 
out of which He will judge those who are to stand be- 
fore him will be opened; therefore it appears very 
plain that those wdio condemned the Ancient Son of 
Man in the book and the book itself and said, "We 
must not support it since we took it from the writing 
of the Ethiopians" are really meeting a burning day 
of darkness according to the signs. 

It was this Son of Man who said "There shall be 
wars and great earthquakes and famines and pes- 
tilence; and fearful sights and great signs shall there 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 27 

be from heaven. For these be the days of ven- 
geance that all things which are written may be ful- 
filled." By the words "all things," He meant all things 
written in the book of the Son of Man that it might 
be said "the Son of Man goeth as it is written of 
Him," according to which He will call all nations to 
judgment. He told Daniel at the end of days ''that 
these be the days of vengeance that all things which 
are written in the book may be fulfilled." This means 
that all will be judged and everything will be done in 
those days according to the original writing no matter 
of what race or color of the skin. He also said to 
Daniel that some one would seek to change time and 
law and even change what was written in the book 
which made the days of vengeance necessary, A 
great wrong was done by somebody and somebody 
must answer in those days. The Prophet Amos, a 
descendent of the Amorite Sons of Noah, was of the 
Gibeonites and was so known to the Israelites or He- 
brews as such at the time of his prophecy. Accord- 
ing to this prophet, and according to the book of 
Enoch, and according to the Ancient of Days, and ac- 
cording to God and all the powers of heaven a great 
wrong was done to the black man. (II Samuel 21 : 
1-6). 

In the time of Joshua the loud cry was heard, say- 
ing "Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon." Now the 
Gibeonites were not of the Children of Israel, but of 
the remnant of the Amorites. x\nd when the inquiry 
was made about the great famine of three years and 
six months that fell on the Israelites, God Almighty 
answered and said it was for Saul and his bloody 
hDuse because he slew the Gibeonites. If God made 
this answer who was it that made the prayer, say- 
ing ''Sun, stand still on Gibeon," and the sun stood 
still. A\'hen the man of God spoke to the sun it is 
evidently true that He could hear and answer his 
prayer at this time, but He was the Son of Righteous- 
ness whose face was as if it were the sun "and a burn- 



28 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

ing wheel within a wheel" and whose countenance 
was like lightning. So from the powers that were, 
namely Joshua, Saul and David — David King of Is- 
rael with 1,300,000 Israelitish swords against the 
Amorites or black race were the changes made in 
their prophets' writing. And now in our day and 
time, every black man in his home, in his church and 
in his -religion recognizes ^ these changes, and also 
recognizes the man-made Gods of Israel in connection 
with the name of the Eternal God and know not one 
from the other. You will understand my meaning 
in this statement of the gods of Israel from the fol- 
lowing names (Joshua 24:12 — B. C. 2360) : the god 
Sin, Assyrian History, pp. 332-335 ; the god Shamas, 
(Shem), Genesis 11 :10; the god Assur, Gensis 10:11 ; 
the god Merodach, Assyrian History, pp. 226-241 ; the 
god Evil Merodach, II. Kings 25:27; the god Baal, 
Numbers 22:41; the God Baal, I. Kings 16:31-32; the 
god Baal, Hosea 2:7-8; the god Baal, Jeremiah 2Z\7\ 
the god Moloch, Amos 5:26; the god Moloch, Acts 
7:42, 43. These are the names of the gods of Israel 
according to the Assyrian History and the Asiatic 
Researches, and also according to the Bible which our 
Church people make use of in their prayers to God of 
Heaven. 

God declared "I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt 
have no other gods before me." I am the Holy One; 
the All-wise Creator of the heavens and the earth; 
and no other name but this one, to which every knee 
shall bow to offer prayers. The very God of the 
race and man in the book, and the God of the book of 
the race; and the God of the Son and the God of 
the Sons that shouted for joy when He laid the foun- 
dation of the world before Adam. He is the God of 
the Ancient of days, the God of the Son of man, the 
God whose glory is in the Son and who darkenest the 
cloud and made the heavens black and the sky His 
everlasting dwelling. 

The very God of the Gibeonites and Amorites who 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 29 

said to the Amorite Prophet Amos, the father of the 
Prophet Isaiah, ''j\Iy name is the God of Hosts." I 
covered the heaven with blackness and clothed it 
with sack cloth. I clothed the woman with the sun 
and covered the sun with blackness; therfore all the 
world shall acknowledge the power and glory of the 
Son of ]\Ian of the Ancient days when He shall ap- 
pear in the clouds of the heaven at the end of days. 

Black His visage. Coal His name, 
The fulgent glow of fire and flame 
Lucent heat by day and night. 
The morning beams and wheel of light. 

Black, the man ot celestial age. 
Black played its part on Nature's stage. 
Black veiled the cross of the Son divine. 
Black veiled the earth with a heavenly sign. 

He was a burning bush before the Hebrew Moses 
(Moyses) in the land of the Hol}^ Priesthood, and as 
fire, thunder and lightning in folds of black clouds on 
Mount Sinai. And to prove the incombustibility of 
His body and soul in any fire He appeared in the 
furnace of the Babylonian king with his three men: 
''Hananiah, Mishael (or Michael) and Azariah," 
where He appeared as the fourth man whom they 
called the Son of God. This Son of God was the long- 
looked for King of the Jews; the Prophet Daniel, 
Hananiah, Michael and Azariah were also Jews un- 
der the Prince of the eunuchs of Ethiopia, who, by the 
King of Babylon, were acknowledged to be men and 
children in whom was no blemish and skillful in wis- 
dom. The Book of Daniel uses the same words which 
is found in the Book of Enoch concerning the Son of 
Man and the Son of God, which was not recognized 
by the Bible translators because it was the writing 
of the Ethiopians. This will explain the reason for 
changing the names of the three wise children of God 
into ''Hebrew children." Not that I am the author 



30 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

of this statement but quoting the commentary of the 
Bishop's Bible in which I found these words : "They 
nev^e* should have left the names of the eunuchs in 
the *Book of Daniel after they changed them into the 
Hebrew." It is understood here by what the Bishop's 
Bible declares in this case that Hananiah, Mishael and 
Azariah were identified with the Ethiopian Eunuchs 
and the same three men in the seven-degree heated 
furnace with one like the Son of God among them. 

This experience helps to make up the sign in the 
sun, because it was said that three men were cast in 
the furnace and the fourth one appeared with them, 
which was truly the same Son of Man spoken of in 
the Book of Enoch. 

As he spoke of the Son of God as being the fourth 
which to Enoch was the same one who afterwards 
was called by the Priesthood of Egypt and Ethiopia ; 
and so known to the whole race as the Prince and 
Ruler of celestial spirits. The palm branch was 
therefore used by the race as a symbol of wisdom of 
this wise Son and Heavenly Prince. The doctrine of 
Astronomy is as old as the name "Family of Heaven," 
and the palm-branch symbol as old as the garden of 
God. It is not an invention of the Roman Catholic 
Church, but an invention of the science of the heav- 
enly bodies and so used by all the wise sons of God 
in the first age of the creation of God (Book of 
Enoch 68: 2, 3, 5). 

John said when the fourth angel sounded the third 
part of the sun and moon and the third part of the 
stars were smitten with darkness and the night like- 
wise, which is a proof of the living body in the' sun, 
the same could go in or be placed in a burning fire, 
and remain therein or be placed in the sun and remain 
there and yet not burned where the presence of God 
is. When we consider that it is said that : "The sun 
shall not give his light," we must not forget to con- 
sider a reason for it. The firs-t thing we must con- 
sider is this : "When God, the Almighty Father, creat- 



THE- BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 31 

ed all things by Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, He had 
every right to dictate to every creature the life and 
form of government He would have them to live in. 
And if any human creature or any part of it disre- 
garded this right and assume to make other gods 
for themselves and change and destroy the original 
law, kill the prophets and make men serve their gods 
in the face of the Almighty God, is not this a good 
reason for Him to cover the sun with blackness and 
say: "Sun stand still and shine no more on the lower 
world." And again, if He commanded the black man 
to write the history of the Creation in the name of 
the Son of Man with the foregoing conclusions, and 
it was done ^according to His command and the lower 
world says "We must not recognize it," is not the 
sign in the sun a good reason for what will come upon 
the world of gods hereafter? 

He was in the Book of Enoch as the Son of Man, 
both Ele and the book were rejected, hated and denied. 
The same that hated the authors of the book hated 
Him, fastened ropes around His body, conducted Him 
through the streets of the cit}^ and slapped and spit 
in His face, beat and scourged Him and delivered Him 
to be killed. Sixty-three years after that He re- 
appeared unto John on the Isle of Patmos, holding in 
His hand a little book, crying in the voice of seven 
thunders, recommending the book to be read. The 
statement of the voice is also found in the Book of 
Enoch 68:13, 14, in which nothing is found written 
against neither Cain nor the black race. This chap- 
ter particularly says: "On that day they shall raise 
their united voices," which signifies the angels of 
power and the other powers who was upon the earth 
on that day. Looking to the future in the time of the 
sixth seal when the sun would be black, and about 
the time of the seventh angel when He began to 
sound the mystery of God, and when it shall have 
been finished as He declared it to His servants the 
prophets. 



32 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

This will be at the end of the time appointed cover- 
ing the whole period of the prophecy of Enoch: that 
is to say, 6,000 years from the day of his translation, 
beginning August 1st to the second day of the ninth 
month, A. D. 1984, in the month of April. When we 
say ''the sixth seal," we mean what will be opened in 
this 6,000 years and about the close of it. The whole 
time. is 42,000 years; for example: 6,000 into 42,000 
goes 7,000 times, so we have here the time and 
times and the dividing of time "of the whole time of 
the prophets when the mystery of God shall be fin- 
ished." There are 7,000—1,000 for each of the 6,000 
at the end of every six, representing the Sabbath day. 
Each of the 7,000 had an angel for its time, each 
angel had His seal and His phial in His time; He had 
also His voice or trumpet of warning, but not until 
the mystery of God shall be finished as He declared 
to His servants will the voice of the seventh angel 
be heard. It is called the voice of seven thunders — 
the fourth was in the wilderness of Judea; and in the 
Book of Enoch they are called the Powers of God, in 
the Book of Revelation they are called the Seven 
Spirits of God, and the seventh is the great chief and 
lion of the tribe of Judah who will open the book of 
seven times 6,000 at the end of days. At the time of 
the end, John saw another mighty angel come down 
from heaven whose face was as if it were the sun 
and, in His hand was a little book open. Here you 
see the face of the Son of Man and the woman, ac- 
cording to His own revelation is clothed with the 
same face which afterward became black as sack 
cloth of hair. In the days of the sixth seal the sun 
is black; the sun being thus clothed makes the wom- 
an black as itself, which must be taken as the real 
true woman of the Gospel of the Kingdom in whose 
honored name it had to be preached, signifying His 
Sister, Mary Magdalene, or His Mother Mary, both 
of whom did the will of their Father and His Father 
which was in heaven. 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 33 

St. Simon Peter, the brother of Mary Magdalene, 
said in the Acts of the Apostles, ''Ye men of Israel, 
why marvel ye at this; why look ye so earnestly on 
us, as though by our own power or holiness we had 
made this man to walk. The God of our Fathers hath 
glorified His Son Jesus whom ye delivered up and 
denied Him in the presence of Pilate. 

But ye denied the Holy One and the just, and desir- 
ed a murderer to be granted unto you and killed the 
Prince of Life whom God hath raised from the dead, 
whereof we are witness. And he shall send Jesus 
Christ which before was preached unto you whom 
the heaven must receive until the time of restitution 
of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth 
of the Prophets" (First Gen., Epistle of Peter, chap- 
ter 1, verses 2-12). 

In the fourth chapter of John, love is greatly spoken 
of and no other is known or was ever spoken of but 
the love of God under the figure of a black woman of 
the night, spreading her golden wings over young 
Creation, destined to come forth, who verily was fore- 
ordained before the foundation of the world. He was 
called the beginning of the Creation of God, while 
those of the same mother understanding this rela- 
tion and knowing how and by whom they were begot- 
ten, said, according as He hath chosen us in Him be- 
fore the foundation of the world that we should be 
holy and without blame before Him in love, for we are 
"members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones" 
— Ephesians 5 :30. They were just as much of His 
heavenly body as they were of His natural body, 
otherwise they could not have, neither would He have 
said ''Abide in me," that is to say in His burning 
presence of love being who is the image of the in- 
visible God — the first-born of every creature. Thus 
saith the apostle to the Gentiles: Is not this the same 
invisible, hidden and unseen God in darkness — the 
creator of the first egg of life and love of every crea- 
ture. The great mystery of love was first written 



34 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

by the black man of the first age in his own language 
which said, ''Night spreaded her coal black wings and 
laid the first egg, which brought forth love, the image 
of the invisible God." Since by Him were all things 
created that He might have the pre-eminence, for it 
pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness 
dwell. ^ 

Thus blackness or chaotic darkness was the begin- 
* ning of the creation of God, and from this and out of 
this we miist see the Son of God as an infant light yet 
hovering under the great wings of darkness which 
made Him as if He had been hatched by the heat of 
love to be the Son of the morning to come as a light 
out of that same darkness, as the image of the invis- 
ible God. This is the first description of the first be- 
gotten and first born of every creature. The apostle 

• John was right when he said ''the light shineth in 
darkness and the darkness comprehended it not," that 
is to say, the tgg laid in darkness had in it life and 
light, which had not yet been declared by the Father. 
The tgg mystery is the oldest mystery in the history 
of life because it is the first symbol of the winged 
creation, the sun or Son of love and heat first, then 
the angels or ministering spirits which were called 
the stars of the heavens, all of which were under this 
tgg symbol, but He who was called the Son and 
Prince was the first born of every creature. 

According to the history of the tgg of the first liv- 
ing creature of nearly 42,000 years, we are compelled 
to recognize the people whose name it bears, whom 
the sacred writing says were Ethiopians ; whom the 
historian says "pretended that their ancestors went 
back into eternity. This pretention, if you think it 
is, is nevertheless, supported by the book of Enoch in 
these words, namely, "Before the sun and the signs 
were created, and before the stars of heaven were 

'^ framed, His name was invoked in the presence of the 
Lord of spirits." There were millions of spirits, and 
over them were other higher Lords, which made up 



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the hosts of heaven, and over these was the Son 
whose name was praised as the highest of all, whom 
the same Ethiopians called the Prince and Ruler of 
the celestial spirits. 

Christ the same Lord and Son of man, spoke of 
the signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars, 
as one having authority, and the Ethiopian saints 
made use of the same words before He came to Beth- 
lehem's manger, declaring that He was before the 
sun and the signs, Avhich truly is back into eternity. 
Supported by Christ, to verify what is said to be 
''pretention of the Ethiopian saints," I refer to the 
first chapter of the Ephesians and the fourth v.erse, 
which says, ''According as He hath chosen us in Him 
before the foundation. of the world, that we should 
be holy and without blame before Him in love." All 
of these claims, this love and relationship of sancti- 
fied flesh in which the word was made, and said with 
full and clear divine knowledge, we are flesh of His 
flesh, and bone of His bone, in the same epistle. 

For this we know, that no Hebrew, Greek nor Rom- 
an ever claimed any such love and relationship to 
the Son of God back into eternity before the founda- 
tion of the world as did the Ethiopian saints. And 
in their writing we find the words, "Royal Priest- 
hood, Holy nation, and peculiar people," ''A nation of 
Jews and the Christ of God their king." 

The 18th chapter of Saint John says it was these 
same Jews that said to Pilate, "It is not lawful for 
us to put any man to death." So their king was ac- 
cused falsely, arraigned, tried and condemned to 
death by the Hebrew and Roman law under Pontius 
Pilate. Centuries after the crucifixion of Christ the 
Hebrew and Roman law by which He was crucified, 
was changed and put on the Jews so as to accuse 
His own people of His blood; therefore, not wanting 
to acknowledge the original Jews from the Ethiopian 
writing it was changed in favor of the Hebrews by 



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Rabbi Ben-Ezera Abraham for the Romans, at the 
cost of $150,000, to, make the Jews Hebrews. Ever 
since then the Hebrews and Jews are taught as be- 
ing one and the same people, which Christ Himself 
denied in Revelations 3:9. The money was paid by 
Cardinal Ximenes, Prime Minister to Spain and 
Bishop to Toledo, to make these changes. The 
changers are equally charged and accused with those 
who call themselves Jews and are not, in the first 
chapter of the Romans, 23-25 verses, with being en- 
emies of truth. Upon the grounds of this enmity pag- 
an Rome, to oppose Christ and the Ethiopian saints, 
set up other gods, as did the Hebrews, the following 
are their names : Janus, Esculapius, Liber, Mercurius, 
the son of Maia, the Tyrian Hercules, Castor and Pol- 
Jox and the like, against the pagan gods Origen and 
Arnobins, especially Origen, an African by birth and 
an able writer, who began the following argument, 
said, ''You pagans confound yourselves with contra- 
dictions, for the omnipotent God according to the 
natural sense of all mankind, was neither begotten or 
made, nor ever had a beginning in time. He being the 
fountain and origin of all things. But Jupiter, as you 
say, had both a mother, grandmother, a father and 
grandfather, therefore he cannot be the eternal, 
omnipotent God." So the pagans aswered in the fol- 
lowing Latin, ''Sed quod hominem natum et quod 
versonis infame est vulibus, crusis supplicio inter- 
emtum et Deum fuisse contenditis, et supperesse ad- 
hunc creditis et quotidianis supplicationibus ardora- 
tis." The translation is this, ''But we do not say that 
the gods are therefore displeased with you Christians 
because you worship the omnipotent God, but because 
you contend Him to be a God who was not only born 
a mortal man, but also died an ignominous death, suf- 
fering as a malefactor, believing Him still to survive 
and adoring Him with your daily prayers." The Af- 
rican Christian made the following reply: "Tell us 
now, I pray you, who these gods are who take it as 



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so great an injury and indignity done to themselves 
that Christ should be worshipped. Are they not 
Janus, Esculapius, Liber, Mercurius the son of Maia, 
and the Theban or Tyrian, Hercules, Castor and Pol- 
lox and the like?" Thus the Roman pagans replied 
in Latin in these words, "Hice ergo Christum coli, et 
a nobisoccipi et existimari pro numine unlneratis ac- 
cipiunt auribus et obliti Paulo ante Sortis et condi- 
tionis sua id quod sibi concessum est impertiri- alteri 
nolunt. Hac est Justitia Caelitum, nonne estud liv- 
oris est et avaritiae genus, no obtrectatis quedum 
sordens suas eminere solumodo velle fortunas, ali- 
orumres premi et in contempta a humilitate calcari 
natuni hominen. Quid enim vos buminen nullum 
colitis natum, nun unum et alium nun innumeros 
alios guinimo nun omnes quos jam templis habetis 
vestris morlalium susturis ex numero et caelo sider- 
ibesque donastis. Concedamus interdum, manum 
vestris opinationibus dantes unuiii Christum fursse 
denobis mentis animae corporis, fragilitatis et con- 
ditionis unius, nonne dignins a nobis est tantorum ob 
munerum gratiom, Deu dici deusque sintire si enim 
vos Liberberum quod reperit usum vini. Si quod 
panis cererem, si Esculapium quod Herbarum, Si Me- 
nervam, quod olea si Triptolemum quod aratris; Si 
denique Herculem, quod feras quod fure quod multi- 
pliceum capitum Superavit compescuitque natrices 
divorum retulistis in caelum; honoribus quantis af- 
ficiendus est nobis, qui ab erroribus nos magnus in- 
senuata veritate traduxit," etc. The translation of 
this is omitted, but the following reply which the 
African Christian made to it is as he said, ''Are these 
the gods who are so much offended with Christ's be- 
ing worshipped, and accounted of by us, they, who 
being forgetful of their former condition, would not 
have the same bestowed upon those which hath been 
granted to themselves, is this the justice of the heav- 
enly powers ; is this the righteousness of God, or is it 
not rather base envy and covetousness for them thus 



38 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

to ingross all to themselves? We worship indeed one 
that was born a man, what then do you worship? No 
such one, but another and innumerable. Are not al- 
most all your gods such as were taken from the ranks 
of men and placed among the stars? And will you 
account that damnable in us Christians which you 
yourselves practice? Let us for the present yield 
this much to your infidelity and grant that Christ was 
but an ordinary man of the same rank and condition 
with other mortals, yet might we not for all, accord- 
ing to your principle, think Him worthy by reason of 
the great benefits which we receive from Him to be 
accounted a God? For if you have advanced into the 
number of your Divi, Bacchus or Liber for inventing 
the use of wines, Ceres of corn, Esculapius of herbs, 
Minerva of olives, Triptolemus of the plow, and Her- 
cules for subduing beasts, thieves and monsters ; with 
how great honor ought Christ to be afifected by us, 
who by insinuation of divine truth hath delivered us 
from such errors of mind." 

This is the full answer of the native born African 
Christian — a black man — to pagan Romanism which' 
government and people had sworn to exterminate. 
You have read for yourself the Latin gentile argu- 
ment set up against Christ, and from the replies made 
to the argument you can plainly see who the men and 
people were whom Christ said would be hated and 
made slaves for His name's sake. Not only in the 
days of Christ, but through all ages, the same men 
and people were to God as what they were to Christ 
or Son of man, in the land of the ransomed, in the 
work and in the name of this Son of man for whom 
they were made slaves and for whom they were led as 
sheep to the slaughter. No weapon in their hands was 
seen and none in His, nor in His commandment, for 
any one to kill the most holy people. Nevertheless, 
they were slain for the word of God and for the testi- 
mony of Jesus Christ as you have read in their argu- 
ment against the gods of gentile Rome. 



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39 



Before the davs of King Herod it was said "Ethi- 
opia must be destroyed, Africa must be blotted out 
to exterminate the seed of David, that brought forth 
the name of Christ into the world as a Kmg of kings. 

I will o-ive here the exact statement on this from 
history, quoting the work of the Institutes of Ec- 
clesiastical History, of ancient and modern, by Dr 
Tohn Lawrence von Mosheim, D. D., Chancellor of 
the University of Gottingen. The following is what 
his work savs, namely, 'Tn this simple, unvarmshed 
story there'is nothing difficult to be believed, it is 
therefore credible that some enemy of both Jews and 
Christians suggested to the emperor that the Jews 
were expecting a king of David's line, who would give 
laws to the world, and that the Christians likewise 
believed in Him, and that He would re-appear and 
set up a splendid kingdom; and that the tyrant en- 
rao-ed by the suggestions of the insidious foe, order- 
ed\ll the posterity of David to be sought out and to 
be put to death." 

It is understood that Emperor Nero of the Roman 
Empire was the first emperor that persecuted the be- 
lievers in Christ. And the same Ecclesiastical History 
says he accused those innocent people of crimes 
which he himself committed, namely, that of setting 
fire to the Citv of Rome and caused the city to be 
illuminated with the burning bodies of those innocent 
people. Tacitus, the Roman historian, says, ''No 
human aid, no munificence of the Prince, nor expia- 
tion of the gods, removed from him the infamy of 
having ordered the burning of the city himself." So 
to stop the clamor he falsely accused the Christians, 
the founders of the Christ, who was executed in the 
reign of Tiberius, by the procurator, Pontius Pilate. 
Not only throughout Judea, the birthplace of evil, 
but at Rome also, where everything atrocious and 
base centers and is in repute. "The first seized," 
says Tacitus, "confessed their belief in Christ, then 
a multitude were convicted 'as being one people,' 



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not so much of the crime of burning the city as of 
hatred to them and their being of the seed of David." 
An insult was added to their torment for their being 
clad in skins of wild beasts, the same as John the 
Baptist, who did not call them a generation of vipers 
as he did those who called themselves Abraham's 
seed. It is understood that Christ was the expected 
Messiah and King of the Jews of which John the 
Baptist and all the other apostles were blood kin, of 
the seed of David. If, therefore, Abraham's children 
were Jews, why was it that they did not know 
their King as the Ethiopians knew Him in the 
book of Enoch, and why did the council and sen- 
ate of Israel give sanction to His death if He was of 
the seed of their father Abraham. The apostle Peter 
did not call them Jews in the following scripture. 
Acts 2:22-25, ''Ye men of Israel, hear these words: 
Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God, among 
you by miracles and wonders and signs which God 
did by Him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also 
know Him ; being delivered by the determinate coun- 
cil and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by 
wicked hands have crucified and slain, whom God 
hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death, be- 
cause it was not possible that He should be holden 
of it. For David speaketh concerning Him, I fore- 
saw the Lord always before my face; for He is on 
my right hand, that shall not be moved. What is 
absolutely true, according to this reference to David 
by the apostle Peter, who knew that the Lord con- 
demned the use of the sword, that the David here 
spoken of, is not the man who killed Uriah with the 
sword of Ammon; neither did Christ the Lord set 
on the throne at the right hand of a murderer, for 
David said, "As for me, I will behold thy face in 
righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake with 
thy likeness. Thou rewardeth me according to my 
righteousness, according to the cleanness of my 
hands hath He recompensed me. For I have kept the 



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way of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed 
from my God." It was this David with w^hom God 
made a sworn covenant in holiness that his seed 
should set upon his throne in righteousness forever. 
It was this David of whom the apostle Peter spoke 
and who said, 'Tt is God that girdeth me with 
strength and maketh my way perfect." The people 
of his seed were called "a holy nation" by the same 
apostle, "of a royal priesthood and a peculiar people. 

The God of this David was his strength which 
made his way perfect in love and which made him 
as much a man preordained to be perfect and to be 
above all abominable things as Christ was to be of 
his seed. God's divine nature was perfect and holy, 
and all He purposed in Jesus Christ was eternal, for 
this reason David, King of Israel, who violated the 
divine and moral law, could not have been fore-or- 
dained to be thus, and to be perfect in love and at 
the same time be a qualified father without blemish 
unless you mean to say that God fore-ordained and 
made a covenant with human flesh of corruption for 
the lineage of the Son of His eternal purpose. This 
was impossible, because the first cause and seed peo- 
ple of His purpose were perfect, and the people and 
the Master of the house were of the same household. 
These were from one eternal root, and a tree of 
twelve branches and twelve manner of fruit, which 
brought forth the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 

The following are the names of the twelve months 
in the beginning of the first years after creation, 
namely : 

Yoth — August. 

Paopi — September. 

Athor — October. 

Choeak — November. 

Tobi — December. 

Mechi — January. 

Phamenoth— February. 

Pharmuthi — March. 



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Pachons — April. 
Paoni — May. 
Epep — June. 

Mesore — July (the last month in the Ethiopic year. 
The first month 

August 30 days and 5 hours 

September 30 days and 5 hours 

October . .' 30 days and 5 hours 

November 30 days and 5 hours 

December 30 days and 5 hours 

January 30 days and 5 hours 

February 30 days and 5 hours 

March 30 days and 5 hours 

April 30 days and 5 hours 

May .30 days and S hours 

June 30 days and S hours 

July 30 days and 5 hours 



360 days and 60 hours 
360 days, and 60 hours equal 5 days, equal 365 days 
of Enoch's walk with God, which made the whole 
number of days in the year for all succeeding years 
and generations, according to which God made a 
promise of the Messiah to the holy nation. Thus ac- 
cording to the first inventors of the first musical 
instruments of Enoch's race, especially the Jews' 
harp, we can but acknowledge the nation to be the 
same, and the nation qf the Jews and the royal priest- 
hood of the Messiah spoken of in the book of Enoch. 
In his book we read these words, "On that day they 
shall raise their united voices in praise of the Mes- 
siah in the spirit of wisdom and patience." And we 
also read such words as ''stars singing together and 
the sons of God shouting for joy by the same singers 
when He laid the foundation of the earth, who gave 
birth to the jubilee singers of Galilee in the land of 
the nativity of Christ. 

It is a known fact to all the learned of the world, 
that the Hebrew people had no history nor do they 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 43 

claim any before Adam ; neither did they in any part 
of their history ever claim or support anything writ- 
ten in the book of Enoch before the foundation of the 
world, as was taught by the King of the Jews. They 
denied Him and all He said and taught of those 
whom He called His and went about to set their time 
from Adam and expected another Messiah of the 
Hebrews. So they changed the names of the months 
which they called the Hebrew months, to start their 
beginning from the following names : 

Abib— March (Exodus 12:2; 13:4). 

Zif— April (I. Kings 6:1). 

Sivan— May (Esther 8:9). 

Tammuz — June (Zechariah 8:19). 

Ab — July (Zechariah 7\2>). 

Elul — August (Nehemiah 6:15). 

Ethonim — September (I. Kings 8:2) the 7th mo. 

Marchisom — October (I. Kings 6:38). 

Chisten — November (Zechariah 7:1). 

Tebeth — December (Esther 2:16). 

Sebat — January (Zechariah 1:6). 

Adar — February (Ezra 6:15). 

These are the twelve Hebrew months in the He- 
brew year, which begin their national history when 
they came out of Egypt, B. C. 1491 (Exodus 13:4). 

The Hebrew year carries less than 360 days to the 
year, counting from Seth, Adam's son, as the fore- 
father of the Adamic race, with a difference of near- 
ly 300 years after the work of creation was finished, 
therefore the Messiah did not come according to the 
Hebrew months and years, but according to the Jew- 
ish time, who claimed their relation to the Messiah 
from eternity. These were the prophets from the 
foundation of the world, and all of those mentioned 
in the book of Enoch who are called "the holy above, 
the power of the Lord and all the powers of heaven." 
The I'^thiopians all claimed to have been of this pow- 
er which the best American historian says ''they 
boasted in that high sounding title 'Sons of God,' and 



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pretended that their ancestors went back into eter- 
nity." This could not have been so, unless it was in 
the foreknowledge and purpose of God, which He 
purposed in Christ, that they should know where 
' their relation to Him began. It was the same which 
the apostle said and meant in the epistles to the 
Ephesians, which are the following words : "Ac- 
cording as He hath chosen us in Him before the 
foundation of the world that we should be holy and 
without blame before Him in love.'' Even John, one 
of them, and as one of them said, "Beloved, now we 
are the sons of God, it does not yet appear what we 
shall be, but we know when He shall appear, we shall 
be like Him." Therefore, the Ethiopian kings made 
no vain boast in calling themselves sons of God, since 
they declared it first, long before Christ and John's 
day, which was fully approved of and sanctioned by 
Christ Himself. All of those persons which were 
declared were called "Sons of God," and in this plural 
sense they are described as "all the holy above" in 
the book of Enoch. 

So, then, if you believe in the doctrine of the trinity 
and the unity of God in the household and family of 
God, it is utterly impossible for modern theologians 
to try to drag a foreign nation or people in the be- 
ginning of the family of God, when there was but 
one, and only one, which He declared, whom He rec- 
ognized as sons without blame before Him in love. 
And what makes it infinitely worthy of our best at- 
tention, the modern theologians say this was declar- 
ed by the Ethiopian kings, because of which they 
made it a ground for a reason to hate them and reject 
their writings, and even Christ and His testimony of 
them. (Matt. 24:9-14.) Christ is the speaker in this 
chapter, who is the first begotten of God and the first 
product of the first egg of darkness which hatched 
the first love, according to the same sons of God. 

There is a vast difference between love and hatred; 
so great is the difference between a people of love 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 45. 

who loved their king that the people of hatred who 
sought to take life and destroy brotherhood, could 
not live in the same holy atmosphere. Love is the 
Father's burning Son, His divine world of fire, His 
nature and His inexplicable glor}^ and the express 
image of His divine person. It is also the brightness 
of His eternal excellency that was hid in the dark- 
ness of Himself until He broke it as the hatching of 
an egg, from w^hich came forth the new born Son 
and Light of the world, who will deserve to be called 
the beginning of the creation of God. Thus the tgg 
is the symbol of this beginning declared by the sons 
of God, although denied and rejected and branded 
as fables, yet modern people acknowledge this very 
symbol of creation at Easter time by the use of 
eggs. 

In speaking of hatred on the other hand, hatred 
is an iceberg in another region opposite, in the cold 
and indifferent part of the human will or the northern 
cold heartedness against the sunny Southern incuba- 
tor of the first age, where love was created, even 
Jesus Christ the beginning of the creation of God. 

The scriptures of truth say God is love, it also says 
He is a consuming fire. This is not two natures, but 
one and the same, which consumes everything con- 
trary to His divine nature. When one speaks of hell 
fire he speaks of God himself in the oldest term of 
the word, that is to say, no hater can stand in the 
presence of His love nor enjoy His burning coun- 
tenance without being consumed or melted away like 
ice before His burning holiness. His holiness is His 
nature and His love is the same. It does not exert 
itself to make hell fire to burn up people, but He as 
a consuming fire of love, it is impossible for Him to 
change to love a cold hearted hater, but He made it 
possible for the hater to change by repentance to 
love Him; if he repenteth not, then it is certain that 
he cannot abide in His presence with a nature so 
contrary to that of His. With this proud hateful 



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unrepented nature of malice to men or to heaven, 
because they are black, He said to the haters, ''How 
can ye escape the damnation of hell." If, therefore, 
God is love and a consuming fire, how can the hater 
escape if hatred still exists to the former people who 
brought the doctrine of the first born in the world. 
If He is described as a refiner's fire to separate the 
good from the bad and as a shepherd that divideth 
his sheep from the goats, does this mean that the 
hater, the murderer, the liar, the unjust and wicked 
blasphemer can or will be counted with those whom 
He called His beloved, from before the foundation 
.of the world. When we see God as a consuming fire, 
we see the son in any way, we can look at Him as 
the same, for He proceedeth and came forth from 
the father darkness as one of many brethren of light 
and fire. 

It appears now according to the words of Christ, 
the Son, whom the Hebrews hated, that the teachers 
who teach that God so loved the world that He sent 
His Son to die for them and the world and all the 
wicked people of our day are led on false ground; 
because the Man of Truth says, ''He that covers his 
sins shall not prosper in the judgment, but he that 
repenteth and forsake them shall have mercy." The 
man of sin who changed the truth of God into a lie 
and set himself in the temple of God and says "that 
he is God," the same whom Christ will consume by 
the word of His mouth, and destroy by the brightness 
of Elis coming is not saved by the death of Christ, 
according to His own words. Whatever and who- 
ever it is that can not stand in the presence of God 
are not fit for His presence; this one man in particular 
who changed the truth of God into a lie cannot stand 
with Him, he cannot stand for Him, neither can he 
stand before Him in the judgment without truth, be- 
cause truth and light are the same which belong to 
God, who is the Father of light, of consuming fire, 
in whom there is neither variableness nor shadow of 



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turning. Since Christ was created equal to the 
Father, if, therefore. He took upon Himself the sin 
of changing the truth of God to save the man of sin, 
He would have changed Himself, who was Truth it- 
self and made Himself guilty of what the man was 
guilty, which was called a lie. Our Saviour, the 
Christ of God and Son of man could not have taken 
upon Himself this sin, and to die for the sins of the 
whole world when we know that the sin of changing 
the truth of God continued until after the death of 
Christ, and now even abounds everywhere through- 
out the world. Certainly it is high time to ask what 
is meant when we hear the teachers say that Christ 
died to save the whole world from sin. Are not the 
old changes taught now as ever they were, are not 
changes made now as ever they were, does not sin 
now everywhere abound and Christ and the truth of 
God denied; murderers and haters and liars walking 
our city streets, and -even sitting side by side of the 
best teachers in our churches. Why should these con- 
tinue now, and why should they be committed at all, 
why should men live in them if Christ died to save 
them from such awful sins? Even from the apostles 
of Christ and Christ Himself who were scourged and 
to whom He said, 'They would be brought before 
governors and made merchandise or slaves, and kill- 
ed for His sake." To the African Christians and up to 
this date, hatred has abounded to this race, yet we 
are taught that Christ died to save and rQse to justify 
the man of sin in hatred to the African race. Is it 
the innocent or the guilty man that is now crying for 
justice? Was it not the innocent that said, "Why do 
you hate me, because I tell you the truth?" and did 
He not appoint a day hereafter for this question to 
be answered? 

If there were those who spoke in blasphemy against 
God and His tabernacle, and against them that dwell 
in heaven, even Christ whom they called a deceiver, ' 
were these justified in all these things by His resur- 



48 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

rection so as to enable them to escape the just judg- 
ment of God. Did not the apostle of Christ say, 
"Many shall follow their pernicious ways, by reason 
of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 
And through covetousness shall they with feigned 
words (false words) make merchandise (slaves) of 
you, they whose judgment now of a long time 
lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not; 
for if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast 
them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of 
darkness to be reserved unto judgment," seems plain 
enough for any one to see that God Almighty did 
not change His nature of love for His Son to share 
it with the haters of truth and righteousness, nor 
justified them by His resurrection in changing the 
truth. 

Love, vehement fire, burning in its brightest blend 
could not be changed to something contrary to its 
nature, especially to that of blood and murder, hatred 
that carries on wars to take peace from the earth. 
(Matt. 26:52-53.) 

The word "merchandise" is an important word in 
the above scripture quotation; first, because Christ 
spoke of it, and second, because it connects the mer- 
chantmen engaged in the traffic of this merchandise 
with the man of sin, and with the angels that sinned 
and who were bound unto the day of judgment, that 
now lingereth. Thus the man of sin who changed 
the truth of God and caused it to be evil spoken of, 
cannot be on safe ground to appear before Christ in 
the judgment by saying He died to save him. The 
prophets and apostles of God wrote and spoke as the 
Spirit gave them utterance, according to truth, but 
the work and lives of them who wrote and spoke to 
change the truth were called by apostles "their per- 
nicious ways," which, according to the English 
tongue, signify false and destructive ways of those 
that made merchandise of the people of God, and 
taught them the writing of the slave holders in the 



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place of the truth of God. Adding what was taken 
away from the truth, we only use here the words of 
Christ, which are these, "For they will deliver you 
up to the councils and they will scourge you in their 
synagogues, and ye shall be brought before gover- 
nors and kings for my sake, for a testintony against 
them and the gentiles." (Matt. 10:16-20.) Adding to 
this scripture the words of the apostle Peter which 
say, "And through covetousness shall they with 
feigned words make mechandise of you," which, 
from the crucifixion of Christ; no man and no land 
nor people ever -carried the name bleeding Saviour 
and bleeding Africa, but Christ Africa and the Afri- 
can people. He bled and groaned, they bled and 
groaned under heavy burdens. He was stripped and 
beaten with scourging cords until the blood ran from 
His head down to His feet, even from the nails driv- 
en through His hands and His feet by the order of 
whom He called Princes and rulers of the world. It 
is universally acknowledged, and is now the teach- 
ing of the Church that Christ suffered what He said 
His people would have to suffer and these were those 
of the African generation. The apostles of the first 
and second century were witnesses of this fact, even 
Saint Paul, the hermit of Thebet, Egypt, who lived 
in the desert place secluded from the world, who was 
called a black monk and a Jew, was orip of the wit- 
nesses. (Acts 21 :38.) The scripture reads this way, 
"These men being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our 
city, and teach customs which are not lawful for us 
to receive, neither to observe, since we are Romans." 
(Acts 16:18-22.) The same being Romans in power, 
of these were the rulers. under the Roman and He- 
brew law which made it unlawful for any one to 
teach in the name of Christ. For this cause Saint 
Paul, being a Jew, was beaten with many stripes, 
and they cast him and Silas in prison. This was in 
the second century in the time of Narcus Aurelius, 
who supported the Roman law against Christ and 



so THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

His apostles, and from Tiberius against all the Afri- 
can bishops and writers who were made slaves for 
the testimony they held. This is one proof, if no more, 
of their relation to Christ, for which they suffered, 
and all for His name's sake as He said. 

It is true, and it stands to-day upon the pages of 
history to be settled, that if the preaching of the 
gospel of Jesus Christ by this man. Saint Paul, was 
a custom unlawful in Rome to the Romans, and some- 
thing which they could not receive nor observe, there 
were no Roman churches, neither were there any 
letters nor any Roman Christians to receive them 
at the time Saint Paul was cast into prison, because 
it was unlawful for the Romans to receive them. 
(Acts 28:21.) 

The Roman law extended over the whole empire 
and what was unlawful in one part of it was unlaw- 
ful in every part. Since it was called "all the world," 
on this account Christ said to those not of the Rom- 
ans, "Ye shall be hated of all men," that is to say, 
"of the world for my name's sake." If the world 
hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated 
you. If ye were of the world, the world would love 
his own; because ye are not of the world, but I have 
chosen you out of the world, therefore the world 
hateth you." It was called the Roman or gentile 
world because of its dominion in tax gathering and 
carrying on war to take peace from the earth. Christ 
was a king and His nation was a holy nation whom 
the rulers of the world hated and denied Him and 
His people of the right of their kingdom. He said 
"Peace be unto you; not as the world give it,- do I 
give it to you, but as the King of Peace wants you to 
have it, that thou should not kill; in this way I give 
it to you. As my Father has sent me, so I send you 
as sheep among wolves and ye shall be killed for my 
sake. In the world ycHi. shall have tribulations, but 
in me ye shall have peace." This was the prophecy 
of Christ of what would take place after His cruci- 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 51 

fixion on those of whom He said would be as sheep 
led to the slaughter and others made slaves for His 
name sake. And when they reached the point among 
the gentiles to deliver the goods they said: 'These 
men being Jews do exceedingly trouble our city and 
teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive, 
neither to observe, since we are Romans." 

It is and was ever a known fact to all the Hebrew 
scholars that a combination of the Hebrew and Ro- 
man law were made^ against the Jews and Christians 
because of their united support to Christ and His 
doctrine, and that they were condemned as being the 
seed of David, and by the same law put to death, made 
slaves and banished from the Roman Empire by the 
rulers. The Church history, the Acts of the Apos- 
tles and the History of Rome support this statement. 
Peter Parley's Universal History makes this state- 
ment : 'Tn the first place the means used to aggran- 
dize Rome were those of conquest. Her generals 
slaughtered the inhabitants without mercy, they rob- 
bed them without scruple, and they subjected them 
to the Roman yoke without the slightest regards to 
the rights of mankind. And^-what must have been 
the condition of the. race during the seven hundred 
years that Rome was carrying on its wars for no 
other purpose than to enslave the world?" This was 
the abomination, desolation and tribulations spoken 
of by Christ, notwithstanding the church of these 
modern times teaches that Christ died to save the 
world from these dreadful sins and rose to justify it 
in them, yet the cry of the slaughtered slaves were 
heard in bleeding Africa throughout the whole of 
ten persecutions, one of which Christ said Himself: 
"Saul, why do you persecute me?" The Apostle 
Peter was then teaching Christ, for which he was 
cast into prison and he was living when Christ asked 
the persecutor about persecuting Him. And it was 
fully understood that those whom He called were 
those of His household and those of His body, of His 
flesh and of His born. (Ephesians 5:30.) 



52 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

The very commonest understanding of the fair- 
minded man tells him that the persecution of Christ 
was not spiritual when He said "Me," but that part 
of His body which had suffered and was then suf- 
fering after His death which He called His, as He 
said: ''If ye seek me let these of mine go." All of 
these knew Him with one accord, being of one family 
and household of God where they were bred and born, 
and begotten of the same Father. All and every one 
to a man said ''We are His witness, notwithstanding 
we are made slaves and hated and persecuted and 
killed like sheep for His name's sake by those who 
knew Him not. The following is what your historian 
says : "The most painful part of Africa is that which 
belongs to the slave trade from the earliest ages, when 
human society was yet in a rude state, it was the 
custom to make slaves of those who were taken in 
war. For thousands of years slavery was established 
in nearly all the nations of the earth. In 1482 the 
Portuguese began the horrid traffic of the slave trade, 
and England followed in 1563. The poor Negroes 
thus taken from their homes and separated forever 
from all they held dear were crowded into vessels, 
where they suffered from disease and unkind treat- 
ment, and many beaten and scourged as were their 
Lord and His apostles. Jews and Christians and Af- 
ricans and Negroes in the second century were the 
same sufferers because their teachings were unlawful 
for a Roman to receive." 

The black man is told in this day and time that it 
was better to be brought from Africa and made a 
slave under this treatment to get Christianity than 
to have to remain there without it. According to the 
truth of Christianity they never were without it, even 
from the time of Queen Candace of Ethiopia to St. 
Gregorius of her race in the sixteenth century at the 
beginning of the American slavery. At this time, 
according to Father Gregorius, every slave, even 
Father Frumentius, v ho converted the Greeks and 



THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 53 

Romans to Christianity in the fourth century, carried 
it with a knowledge of it into every land, lived it 
and taught it to the gentiles. It is not found in 
the Hebrew history where a Hebrew was ever 
bound in ropes for preaching Christ, nor bound 
and beaten with many stripes and carried to another 
country to teach him Christianity. Nor is it found 
in the Roman history that ever a Roman was bound 
and beaten with bloody cords, brought from Rome 
and made a slave in another land to teach him Chris- 
tianity as it is said of the African race. This was sup- 
ported by the Apostle Paul who was a Jew and beaten 
with a rugged cord thirty-nine stripes by the Romans 
in the second century, he being then a native of The- 
bet, Egypt in Africa. The American slaves were 
none the less witnesses of this fact, who received the 
same number of stripes according to the laws of Vir- 
ginia. (II. Corinthians 11:24.) 

Neither can it be found in the Gospel of Christ, nor 
in the writing of the apostles where He or they ever 
said to a Hebrew, Greek or Roman, ''Ye shall be made 
slaves for my name's sake." The Apostle Peter's 
case and from him to the American slavery, proves 
that it was introduced to oppose Christianity and 
wherever the slaves went they carried it, and the 
thirty-nine stripes and beating and killing followed 
them according to the Roman law, for the sake of 
Christ. (I. Corinthians 1 :26, 27.) If ever this was 
said at all it was said to the apostles of the African 
race, who said to the rich gentiles who became rich 
by the slaves, ''Now ye are rich ; ye have reigned as 
Kings without us; we are fools for Christ's sake, but 
ye are wise in Christ even unto this present hour; 
we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are 
buffeted and have no certain dwelling place. Being 
defamed, we intreat, we are made as the filth of the 
world and the off-scouring of all things unto this 
day. For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we 
are accounted as sheep to the slaughter for Thy 



54 THE BLACK SPOT IN THE SUN 

name^s sake." These declared that neither death nor 
life could separate them from the love of God, which 
is in Christ. For this they were stripped and beaten 
with sticks and stones and forced into vessels by arm- 
ed men and made slaves in distant lands wherever 
they were carried, for the name of Christ. The above 
quotation proves that the poverty and ignorance of 
the slaves were the riches and wisdom of the farm 
master, and the poverty and desolation of Africa the 
riches and glory of the European gentiles. These are 
called the powers of the world to whom Christ said, 
counting the time from that day, ^'Hereafter you shall 
see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of Heaven, 
sitting at the right hand of power." He also said that 
before His coming "there shall be signs in the sun 
and in the moon and in the stars, and upon earth dis- 
tress of nations with perplexity for fear or looking 
after those things which shall come upon the earth." 
— Luke 21 :25-28. His address was particularly made 
to the mighty men and chiefs among the Scribes and 
Pharisees and to the kings and rulers of the world. 
From that time on. He said to them ''Hereafter ye 
shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of 
heaven, sitting at the right hand of power." This 
was His prophecy of the '7^^^"^^^^ ^^at lingereth," 
at which the powers of heaven would be engaged and 
the prophecy of Enoch in the same matter was the 
same and using the same words for the same occasion 
when the powers of heaven would be shaken. It is 
for all who are looking for the coming of Christ to 
watch the present signs and the signs of 1930, 1942 
and 1972, which will invite us all to the study of the 
Book of Revelation, especially the opening of the 
seven seals and the voice of the seven thunders. I 
say, then, seek peace and pursue it into every land and 
to all nations for a witness in the judgment, in which 
all nations shall be called to answer the Great Judge 
of the "Hereafter." \ 



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